Monthly Archives: February 2019

Looking at Divorce News for Key Changing Issues Marriage and divorce are permanent ideals which never change. Right? Well, not so much. Certainly, you can look around and get an idea that today’s generation is waiting longer to get married than you did, and likely that you did longer than your parents did. But there’s more to it than that, and there are both interesting pieces of statistical evidence as well as other news and developments which show how marriage and divorce are evolving in 2019.

What Happens When the World’s Richest Man Gets Divorced? Heavy is the head that wears the crown, as the saying goes. So it is that not long after Jeff Bezos was declared the richest person in the world, and the richest individual in modern history, that he’s now staring down what will likely be the most expensive divorce in history, as he and his wife MacKenzie Bezos announced their pending divorce in January.

States are Passing Laws Regarding How to Handle Pets in Divorce Cases Two years ago, we shared news that Alaska became the first state to formally pass statutes regarding how to handle pets in divorce cases, requiring courts in the state to consider the wellbeing of the animal as opposed to simply viewing a dog as property to be divvied up between the two parties. They aren’t alone anymore, as at the start of 2019, a new law has gone into effect in the state of California as well.

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